Muriel Spark as Auto-Biographer in Curriculum Vitae
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https://doi.org/10.36399/GroundingsUG.1.275Keywords:
Muriel Spark, Autobiography, Curriculum Vitae, Self, Literary Theory, Textual Meaning, Conventions, Satire, VoiceAbstract
Examining Muriel Spark’s main aims as an auto-biographer in her work Curriculum Vitae brings important resources in the exploration of the genre of autobiographical writing. This, with theoretical engagement, allows consideration of the critical issues surrounding the roles of author and reader in the construction of the literary self. Spark demands the reader participate in the construction of textual meaning; overturning the conventions of autobiography, satirising its claims to omniscience and highlighting the impossibility of an authentic voice with regards to the self.
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